Dissertation on rape

It’s interesting that I actually started a dissertation in graduate school
on religion. And what I found was that it was too close of a call for me to make.
Yes, I thought I could increase knowledge about religious behaviour, its causes,
etc. But in doing so it tended to have the effect on people I convinced of [this
that they] would no longer practice their Christianity. I was not at all sure that
was a good thing. In fact, I sensed that it was making them more selfish and less
cooperative.

No single facet explains the motivation for rape; the underlying motives of rapists can be multi-faceted. Several factors have been proposed: anger ; power ; sadism ; sexual gratification in tandem with evolutionary proclivities . [46] [47] However, some factors have significant causal evidence supporting them. American clinical psychologist David Lisak , co-author of a 2002 study of undetected rapists, [48] says that compared with non-rapists, both undetected and convicted rapists are measurably more angry at women and more motivated by a desire to dominate and control them, are more impulsive, disinhibited, anti-social, hypermasculine , and less empathic. [49]